OLIX - Mechanical Engineering Manager

• Leadership & People Management • Proven experience leading, developing, and motivating high-performing mechanical engineering teams within a product development environment. • Demonstrated ability to manage engineers across multiple disciplines, experience levels, and locations. • Strong track record of coaching, mentoring, and developing technical talent, including succession planning and career progression. • Experience setting engineering objectives, performance expectations, and development plans aligned with organisational goals. • Proven ability to build collaborative, accountable, and results-oriented engineering cultures. • Experience managing engineering resources, workload planning, and project prioritisation across multiple concurrent programmes. • Ability to balance technical excellence with commercial, schedule, and business objectives. • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical and business decisions at all levels of the organisation. • Experience leading teams through organisational growth, product transitions, and changing business priorities. • Technical Expertise • Strong background in the design and development of complex mechanical systems, enclosures, assemblies, and product platforms for high-performance electronic equipment. • Demonstrated understanding of structural design, thermal management, materials selection, tolerance analysis, and manufacturability considerations. • Practical experience gained throughout a career developing products that require high levels of reliability, serviceability, and operational performance. • Solid understanding of thermal management technologies, including air-cooled and liquid-cooled solutions, enabling effective technical oversight and decision-making. • Experience guiding teams through the development of complex sheet metal, machined, cast, moulded, and fabricated assemblies. • Strong understanding of mechanical development processes, including concept generation, detailed design, design reviews, simulation, testing, and qualification activities. • Ability to provide effective technical leadership during architecture definition, design trade-off analysis, and engineering review processes. • Experience balancing performance, reliability, manufacturability, serviceability, and cost considerations when evaluating technical solutions. • Working knowledge of system-level design considerations, including electronics integration, thermal performance, airflow management, cable routing, assembly constraints, and manufacturing requirements. • Ability to challenge assumptions, identify technical risks, and support engineering teams in resolving complex product development issues. • Experience reviewing and assessing mechanical architectures, thermal strategies, qualification plans, and design decisions to ensure alignment with product and business objectives. • Strong understanding of product reliability, lifecycle considerations, environmental requirements, and quality-focused design methodologies. • Familiarity with simulation-driven design approaches including thermal, structural, vibration, and airflow analysis. • Ability to engage credibly with subject matter experts across multiple engineering disciplines while empowering teams to own detailed technical execution. • Experience supporting technology selection, platform roadmaps, and long-term architectural decisions through informed engineering judgement. • Maintains awareness of emerging materials, cooling technologies, manufacturing methods, and industry trends to guide engineering direction and organisational capability development. • Product Development & Delivery • Proven experience delivering complex mechanical products and assemblies from concept through production and lifecycle support. • Experience leading design reviews, verification planning, qualification activities, and production readiness assessments. • Strong understanding of structured product development methodologies, engineering governance, and stage-gate processes. • Experience managing technical risk, issue resolution, and engineering decision-making throughout the product lifecycle. • Ability to evaluate programme priorities and make informed trade-offs between performance, cost, schedule, and risk. • Experience supporting New Product Introduction (NPI), manufacturing ramp-up, and sustaining engineering activities. • Familiarity with configuration management, engineering change control, and product lifecycle management processes. • Experience establishing and tracking engineering metrics to drive predictable delivery and continuous improvement. • Experience supporting cost optimisation initiatives through design improvements, manufacturing efficiencies, and supplier collaboration. • Cross-Functional Collaboration • Demonstrated success working closely with Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Product Management, Programme Management, and Operations teams. • Experience leading cross-functional decision-making to resolve complex technical and commercial challenges. • Strong systems-thinking approach with the ability to understand interactions between mechanical, thermal, electrical, manufacturing, and operational requirements. • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. • Experience participating in executive reviews, customer engagements, and strategic planning activities. • Proven ability to align engineering execution with wider business objectives and product strategy. • Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to foster collaboration across geographically distributed teams. • External Partner Management • Experience managing relationships with external design partners, engineering service providers, contract manufacturers, tooling suppliers, and technology partners. • Ability to define technical requirements, review deliverables, and ensure external partners meet quality, schedule, and performance expectations. • Experience coordinating development activities across internal and external engineering teams. • Strong supplier engagement and technical relationship management skills. • Experience supporting supplier selection, manufacturing readiness reviews, and component qualification activities. • Ability to hold partners accountable while maintaining effective long-term working relationships. • Quality, Compliance & Continuous Improvement • Strong understanding of engineering best practices, design standards, and quality management principles. • Experience driving design quality, reliability improvement, and root cause analysis activities. • Understanding of compliance, safety, environmental, and regulatory requirements applicable to mechanical product development. • Experience implementing process improvements that enhance engineering efficiency, product quality, and delivery performance. • Familiarity with qualification testing, failure analysis, corrective action processes, and reliability-focused product development practices. • Commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence within engineering organisations. • Personal Attributes • Strong technical leadership combined with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset. • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. • Ability to operate effectively at both strategic and tactical levels. • Confident communicator with strong presentation and stakeholder engagement skills. • High degree of personal accountability, integrity, and professionalism. • Adaptable and resilient, with the ability to lead teams through ambiguity and change. • Passion for developing people, fostering innovation, and building high-performing engineering organisations. • Collaborative leadership style with a focus on enabling teams to succeed and deliver exceptional results.